Tim Neville

Nurturing Childhood: The Crucial Role of Outdoor Play in Early Years As we delve deeper into the digital age, with countless devices, apps, and indoor entertainment platforms readily available, we often find ourselves inadvertently creating barriers between our children and the great outdoors. While technological advancements have been beneficial to our society, the importance of […]

When was the last time you had a proper belly laugh?  I bet it made you feel good. That is because when you laugh, the act of laughing helps the body to release endorphins, and create oxytocin, the love hormone, and this is why you feel happy after a good old laugh! But, why wait

Quaggy Children’s ECO Committee are starting a new year with a commitment to improving our environment. Last year we received a distinction and obtained the ECO School Green Flag Accreditation. There’s lots that we can do within our Nurseries and Children’s Centres to help take care of our environment but everyone at home can help

Things are getting more difficult for families in Greenwich in terms of finances and it looks like things may be getting harder as times go on. To try to make access to information easier for families we have launched a ‘Cost of Living Hub’ on our website. Using our experiences with families and the problems

Quaggy Development Trust have been awarded a coveted Eco-Schools Green Flag.  The children at Quaggy Nursery have earned an international accreditation, recognising their amazing work in making their nursery more environmentally friendly and raising eco-awareness. Not only did we gain this award, we passed the accreditation with distinction.  Eco-Schools is an international education programme that

Quaggy are celebrating World Breastfeeding Week. Breastfeeding provides the best start for a child in life. Some of the benefits of breastfeeding are: your breast milk is perfectly designed for your baby breast milk protects your baby from infections and diseases breastfeeding provides health benefits for you breast milk is available for your baby whenever

Recently the author and illustrator Jan Pienkowski sadly passed away. Having read the wonderfully colourful and humorous ‘Meg and Mog’ stories to many, many nursery children over the past 20 years, I was interested to learn about Pienkowski and the life he had led. Jan Pienkowski was born in Poland in 1936, three years later

What is White Ribbon Day? This Thursday 25th November is White Ribbon Day. Every year White Ribbon Day highlights the importance of speaking out on violence against women and girls. On this day and the 16 days after people are encouraged to wear a white ribbon to show support. Wearing the white ribbon means that

Hello Halo the Hippo here. I am Quaggy’s newest Blog writer. My first Blog is about Movember. So here goes! Movember is an annual charity event, during which people are encouraged to grow a moustache for the whole month of November and be sponsored to do so. The idea is that people who wouldn’t normally